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...Zhou gives Hollywood its bittersweet lilt. When she disappears two-thirds of the way through, the movie descends into jarring absurdism, replete with violent mutilations, an unexpected murder and unhygienic pork butchery. Pigs become nearly indistinguishable from people, and Chan just rescues his work from an unsatisfying dissonance with an ending that returns to the film's essential sweetness. Life in Hong Kong may be getting bleaker by the day, but Fruit Chan knows the lights of Hollywood haven't gone...
...Fruit Chan, the director of ,, talked with TIME about the art of independent filmmaking...
...TIME: Why do you use so many amateur actors? Chan: This is a very commercial city and if you do things my way?the independent way?you don't want to spend more money for just actors. In Hong Kong, you can separate professional actors into two lines. The second line is not useful. Okay, they can act, but they want money. Or I could choose the first line, but they are very, very expensive. It's cheaper to use amateurs. My style is very unusual...
...TIME: Where did you find the actors for the movie? Chan: The big boy and the little boy I found on the street. The father I found through my friend's husband who works in L.A. That was very expensive: you have to buy him a first-class ticket to fly out to Hong Kong because...
...TIME: Was Zhou Xun easy to work with? Chan: Her attitude was quite good. But she was very concerned about sex. This is a Chinese problem. If you make a movie about sex, they're very shy about it. They try to get out of doing the scene...